# NFL 2020: Week 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 8, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2020-week-5/922493 "2020-10-08T13:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 52
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2020-week-5/922493/52 "2020-10-12T06:44:12Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > What if most of the board followed your lead and for every post on this message board there were 10 “posting to subscribe” posts for every real-content post? Those numbers aren’t unrealistic, as far more people read threads than participate in them. Why would a lurker post to subscribe? Do you understand what the posted list is and why I use it for my subscribed threads? It kind of sounds like you don’t really grasp what it actually is and are jumping to illogical conclusions. The utility of the posted list is to keep up with legacy threads. Lurkers don’t have legacy threads they posted in; they’re lurkers. Meaning they won’t “post to subscribe” because there is no reason for them to. Were you even aware of the “posted” list until my post here explaining it? Nobody on the boards knew of it until **codinghorror** shared the secret almost exactly [one month ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-happy-with-discourse/919602/48). As soon as he revealed that feature to me I immediately adopted the posted list as my subscribed threads list. And now a month later, I have posted to subscribe exactly once. And I did that mainly to spare you guys the very long followup to my “save the 2pt for last” argument. It feels like, to me, you jumped to a conclusion without really understanding the facts of an issue (thinking lurkers would post to subscribe, even hypothetically) and then threatened to cut off what amounts to a dozen-year online friendship over the conclusion you mistakenly jumped to. Yes, I really do see that kind of passionate overreaction and demonizing your opponent as some of the worst ills in our society today. It’s partly why the political divide is so severe and uncrossable. It’s just bad all around. FAR worse than people just trying to make things work. In my eyes, my “offense” is on the scale of pulling into a gas station pump the “wrong” way (dick move!) but your (irrational and unfounded) reaction was full nuclear and several orders of magnitude beyond appropriate. You really still don’t see anything out of proportion to your response? No jumping to conclusions, no misunderstanding; you’re sticking by your position? If so, go nuts, man, you have my full blessing to put me on ignore. Let **Jules** take care of any of my commissioner needs. > [@SenorBeef](#): > > I was hoping you wouldn’t make me choose between weighing that against seeing your “posting to subscribe” posts and getting annoyed every week. This is more faulty assumptions. Why would I do it every week? I’ve been using this technique for a full month now, and had no occasion to “post to subscribe” to any of the previous weekly NFL threads, or _any_ threads, for that matter. So why would it all of a sudden become every week going forward? Again, the only reason I did it this week was to spare you all another lengthy diatribe on the merits of saving the 2pt for last. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2020-week-5/922493)._